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No. 330,448. Patented Nov. 17, 1885.

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UNITED STATES oARLos- N. WEBB, OF

P T NT OFFICE.

LANsI G URe, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO PERRY D. RANDALL, OF SAME PLACE.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,4:48, dated November 17, 1885.

Application filed February 7, 1885. Serial No. 155,184. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARLOS N. WEBB, a resident of Lansingburg,in the county of Bensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Whip- Sockets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the inventiomthat will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

My invention relates to improvements in whip-sockets, and more particularly to the method of securing rubber disks therein.

The object of my invention is to easily and quickly insert and securely retain a rubber disk in the mouth 'of a whip-socket.

My invention consists in inserting within a ferrule provided at one end with introverted walls a centrally-perforated elastic disk, preterably of rubber, and one end of a socket-bar.- rel adapted to fit the other end of the ferrule, forcing the barrel into the ferrule until the disk is securely held in position by and between the introverted walls of the ferrule and the end walls of the barrel, one or both of said walls resting in a depression in the face of the disk.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation of my improved whip-socket. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the barrel with the ferrule removed. Fig. 4 is a top plan view showing the mouth of the socket. Fig. 5 is a central vertical section of the ferrule alone. Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of the rubber disk.

A is a wooden-socket barrel provided with an outer shoulder, A, to present a surface flush with a ferrule placed thereon. O is a rubber disk provided with a central whipopening, a, and a circular depression, b, surrounding said opening,and forming the circular projecting flange b. The rubber should conform in shape to that of the barrel at its mouth, and when superimposed thereon, as

shown in Fig. 2, project beyond the barrel pressed side toward the introverted walls of I the ferrule, as shown in Fig. 2, the elastic nature of the disk permitting of its easy insertion through either end of the ferrule. The open end of the barrel is then inserted and forced into the ferrule until the disk is securely held in position by and between the introver'ted walls of the ferrule and the end walls of the barrel, the walls 9 of the ferrule resting in the depression I) in the face of the disk, as shown in Fig. 2.

The parts may be secured in position by rivets D,passing through thebarrel and ferrule walls.

It will be readily seen that the disk is securely lockedin a position from which it cannot be removed by use without tearing apart the projecting flange b, which may be of any desired form or thickness. The depression in the disk may be made on the lower side and adapted to receive the barrel-walls, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

The uses and general construction of centrally-perforated rubber disks in whip sockets are well known.

The yielding nature of the rubber permits a whip of larger diameter than that of the aperture in the disk to be inserted therein, where it is securely held and prevented from rattling in the socket.

The general form and construction of the rubber disk as I have shown it is old, and I do not claim the same except in combination with other parts.

I am aware that it is not new to hold the rubber disk to the whip-socket by means of a biting-edge on the ferrule and on the barrel,the

two edges griping it between them, or to effect the same object by means of an expansible ring and introverted ferrule or cap but What I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is- 7 hand this 6th day of February, 1885.

The combinationnvith barrel and introverted ferrule, of a rubber disk having a raised CARLOS WEBB 5 flange, b, that extends beyond the barrel, and Witnesses:

a depression, 1), into which extends the fer rule GEO. A. MosHER, end 5 as shown and'described. CHAS. L, ALDEN.

In testimony whereof I have herenr'ltoset my' 

